Blue Spruce, Duane.
The Land Has Memory : Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian. - 1 online resource (185 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Remembering the Experience of Past Generations -- Honoring Our Hosts -- Cardinal Direction Markers: Bringing the Four Directions to NMAI -- Allies of the Land -- Always Becoming -- Landscape: Through an Interior View -- Stories of Seeds and Soil -- A Seasonal Guide to the Living Landscape -- Appendix 1: Selected Resources and Organizations -- Appendix 2: NMAI Plant List -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Sidebars -- Definitions of Beauty -- The Heron's Visit -- Preparing the Plants -- Sassafras -- Wild Rice -- Tobacco -- Understanding Our Place in Nature -- A Resounding Voice -- Facing Challenges and Maintaining Balance -- Indigenous Geography/Geografía Indígena.
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the 150 native plant species used, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally. The Land Has Memory serves not only as an attractive and informative keepsake for museum visitors, but also as a thoughtful representation of how traditional indigenous ways of knowing can be put into practice.
9780807889787
Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) -- Buildings -- Pictorial works.
Electronic books.
E98.B7 -- L36 2008eb
973.04/97
The Land Has Memory : Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian. - 1 online resource (185 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Remembering the Experience of Past Generations -- Honoring Our Hosts -- Cardinal Direction Markers: Bringing the Four Directions to NMAI -- Allies of the Land -- Always Becoming -- Landscape: Through an Interior View -- Stories of Seeds and Soil -- A Seasonal Guide to the Living Landscape -- Appendix 1: Selected Resources and Organizations -- Appendix 2: NMAI Plant List -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Sidebars -- Definitions of Beauty -- The Heron's Visit -- Preparing the Plants -- Sassafras -- Wild Rice -- Tobacco -- Understanding Our Place in Nature -- A Resounding Voice -- Facing Challenges and Maintaining Balance -- Indigenous Geography/Geografía Indígena.
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the 150 native plant species used, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally. The Land Has Memory serves not only as an attractive and informative keepsake for museum visitors, but also as a thoughtful representation of how traditional indigenous ways of knowing can be put into practice.
9780807889787
Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) -- Buildings -- Pictorial works.
Electronic books.
E98.B7 -- L36 2008eb
973.04/97